While we've been looking at apartments that make us a little jealous, there are plenty of nightmare abodes out there in the boroughs, and this latest one is a doozy. Over at Business Insider a woman writes about a $500/month apartment on Mott Street, between Grand and Hester, that she considered renting a few years ago. Some of the highlights:
- "I was horrified. The place was in complete shambles. The walls were hanging on by sheets of plaster, the ceiling sagged and definitely looked collapsible."
- The tub was in the middle of the kitchen.
- Sloping floors! Loose electrical wires!
- "During the late, wee hours, my potential apartment became a secret gambling den as people lined up to lay down their bets on Mahjong games."
Hold up, what? Apparently the landlady hadn't previously been renting out this apartment, but rather using it for nightly games of Mahjong. She told the potential renter "to move my things to the back of the apartment—the bedroom area—and told me she would slowly move her things out to the front room. 'Let me have my games for awhile. I'll stop eventually. We can even install a door between the bedroom and front room so you won't be disturbed.'"
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